Boo, unnecessary trips to the doctor. Yay, Loki beneath an actual here-and-now volcano (I mean, I guess? Not keen on the eternal-torment part...)

I definitely think Ritchie overshot in calling him evil, although I can rationalize it via Christianity.

It mainly sounds like a homespun sort of not-too-far-south Southern to me.

I really heard it in the clip with James Barrie Gaskill, where words like "tunnel" and "hundred" sounded very Southern to me and words like "out" and "high" sounded very not.